And of course they had to shoehorn some AI bullshit in it
(why I installed this driver: because i can remap the two extra buttons as copy/paste)
Baaack in my day we got a driver for our mouse on a single DD floppy...
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It wasn't too long ago that a USB mouse would store the divers on the mouse.
You're thinking of the Titan submersible accident, I think. But they ended up stored on a Logitech controller, not a mouse.
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Input Remapper on linux can get the job done without the need for this junk. I've used it for this exact purpose before.
It mostly can get the job done. Mice that have more then just mouse 4/5 tend to be entirely fucked and good luck.
Space Sniffer gang represent!
I like SpaceSniffer, it is almost 10 years old program and I still use it
Windirstat is open source
And slow as shit. WizTree takes maybe 10 seconds, whereas Windirstat will take several minutes.
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you could use autohotkey and remap mouse3/4 (or whatever they are) to C-c and C-v
Driver for you mouse? What are you on? MSDOS?
You need it to remap some of the buttons on the side. I have the same garbage just for this purpose.
My installation process for a new mouse is as follows: 1 - Attempt to plug it in. 2 - Flip the USB connector. 3 - Plug it in. 4 - Use the mouse.
Is there anything at all to be gained from installing the software that comes with the mouse? Even with extra side buttons, I've never had anything not work out of the box.
Edit: OP is remapping buttons. Got it.
Lights, dpi configuration, polling rate settings, surface calibration, and (as you mentioned) button remapping. Yes it will work without that but it can work better (and personally that’s worth a little extra ram anyways)
You skipped over the part where you attempt to plug it in, flip the USB connector attempt again, flip it again, and finally it goes in.
Narrator: It wasn't a driver.
The driver itself is probably a few megabytes only. The rest is just bullshit in the name of rgb control and preset/dpi control. You seem to be using a Logitech device, you can enable the onboard memory of your mouse, then uninstall this thing and use Logitech's Onboard Memory Manager app instead.
the driver itself is kilobytes in size. Megabytes is huge for such a simple thing
I have a Logitech mouse. I just used a 3rd party app to remap.
Better mouse for Mac, but looks like you’re on Linux? There’s bound to be something
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